Du weißt: Mit deinen Kindern stimmt etwas nicht – doch niemand glaubt dir. Lauren ist gerade Mutter von Zwillingen geworden, als der Albtraum beginnt. Eine Frau steht nachts an ihrem Krankenhausbett und schlägt ihr einen grausamen Deal vor: Eines von ihren Kindern gegen eines von Laurens. Lauren kann sich retten und die Polizei rufen. Dort wird der Vorfall zuerst nicht ernst genommen. Nur die junge Polizistin Harper glaubt ihr. Und dann nimmt Lauren eine verstörende Veränderung wahr: Etwas...
Katya Grubbs is Cape Town’s only ethical pest removal specialist. She expertly wrangles every manner of wild critter, creature or beast with the help of her unwitting nephew, Toby. When she is hired to remove the exotic beetles that have overrun Nineveh, a new luxury housing development on the coast, Katya finds that bugs aren’t the only unwelcome creatures hiding in the new (but inhabited) apartments. As she investigates further, it becomes clear that Nineveh is fast becoming an environmental,...
Richard, an American in Mexico, helps save the lives of the guilty. A mitigation specialist, hired by defense teams on capital cases in the U.S., he combs the back roads of starving-to-death Mexican shanty towns and agricultural villages. Divorced, a failed novelist with no family, and not too keen on attachments, he investigates the traumatic personal histories of undocumented Mexicans facing the death penalty in his home country.Esperanza is a young woman from the destitute Mexican hamlet of...
After her imprisonment at the brutal hands of her ex, Jay, Felicity is slowly putting her life back together. She's got a new name, a new hairstyle, and even a new partner: strong, supportive Scott, whose down-to-earth nature makes him the perfect stepfather to little Leo. Even though nightmares still haunt her, she's starting to feel that her struggles are over-that she may, finally, be safe. But Jay is still out there somewhere. And Felicity can't shake the feeling she's...
Emily and Elizabeth spent their childhood locked in a bedroom and terrorized by a mother who drank too much and disappeared for days. The identical twins were rescued by a family determined to be their saviors. But there are some horrors love can't erase…Elizabeth wakes in a hospital, strapped to her bed and unable to move or speak. The last thing she remembers is finding Emily's body in their bathroom. Days before, she was falling in love and starting college. Now, she's...
Новый уровень детектива! Дженни – семейный доктор, мать троих детей, жена успешного нейрохирурга. Ее жизнь идеальна. Но все рушится, когда ее пятнадцатилетняя дочь Наоми не возвращается домой… Проходит год. Поиски не приносят результата. Семья распадается. И все-таки Дженни не прекращает попыток найти Наоми. Чем дальше она продвигается в поисках, тем отчетливее понимает, что многого не знала ни о дочери, ни о сыновьях, ни о муже. А так ли нужна ей правда? Ведь порой она бывает такова, что...
"A masterful exhibition in storytelling; a breathless page-turner. Ligon drives his narrative like a formula one racer. Buckle your seat belts and get ready for a thrilling ride."—Jonathan Evison, [i]West of Here"Part meditation on modern love's dark and often unexamined underbelly; part can't-put-it-down-even-for-a-dinner-break-thriller, this novel contains one of the most convincingly and complicatedly terrifying fictional characters I have run into."—Pam...
(from Afterword)<br />'My interest in this, what can I call him, this Australian psycho, came about because of my efforts at writing and publishing accounts of the cases of the famous Queensland detective, Doctor Watson Holmes Jackamara. Unfortunately my interest in the case from the position of my subject palled, for as Jackamara said: ‘This bloke left a trail that you could follow in a four wheel driver.’ Because of this, I was about to conclude that there was little interest in...
At first sight, Francesca Salucci has it all: a beautiful house in Fiji, a loving family and a promising new job. Yet, her life is not as tranquil as it seems. Her former career might be a thing of the past, but her affair with the son of a dangerous mafioso is anything but forgotten.<br /> <br />The world she worked hard to build is turning on its head, and her son is in danger. But how can she protect him when she can’t tell her allies from her enemies?<br /> <br />From...
Blarney and Alex Pike, husband and wife network marketers for American-based Argo, become embroiled in a menacing predicament when their American friend and fellow networker Jack Sussoms is murdered in the Czech Republic. The situation quickly escalates into a melting pot of murder, graft, corruption and terrorism, the scale of which Blarney and Alex have only just begun to uncover… Can Blarney and his skilful friends save the day?<br /> <br />The first novel in a series of four...